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Abel, Richard : The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema 1896-1914, updated and expanded edition : University of California Press : Berkeley, California : 1998 : Abel-Ciné

Abramson, Abraham, project manager : The New York Times Film Reviews 1913-1968, volume 1, 1913-1931 : The New York Times and Arno Press : New York, New York : 1970 : Abramson-NYTimes-1

Altman, Rick : Silent Film Sound : Columbia University Press : New York, New York : 2004 : Altman-Sound

Amberg, George, editor : The New York Times Film Reviews 1913-1970: A One Volume Selection : Arno Press with Quadrangle Books : New York, New York : 1971 : Amberg-NYTimes

Anderson, Joseph L. and Donald Ritchie : The Japanese Film: Art and Industry, expanded edition : Princeton University Press : Princeton, New Jersey : 1982 : Anderson-Japanese

Asplund, Uno; translation, Paul Britten Austin : Chaplin’s Films : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1976 : Asplund-Chaplin

Atwell, Lee : G.W. Pabst : Twayne Publishers : Boston, Massachusetts : 1977 : Atwell-Pabst

Aylesworth, Thomas G. : The Best of Warner Bros. : Gallery Books : New York, New York : 1986 : Aylesworth-Warner

Aylesworth, Thomas G. : Monsters from the Movies : J.B. Lippincott Company : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : 1972 : Aylesworth-Monsters

Aylesworth, Thomas G. : Movie Monsters : J.B. Lippincott Company : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : 1975 : Aylesworth-Movie

Baer, D. Richard, editor : The Film Buff’s Checklist of Motion Pictures (1912-1979) : Hollywood Film Archive : Hollywood, California : 1979 : Baer-Film

Balakian, Peter : The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response : HarperCollins Publishers : New York, New York : 2003 : Balakian-Burning

Balio, Tino : United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars : The University of Wisconsin Press : Madison, Wisconsin : 1976 : Balio-UA

Ball, Robert Hamilton : Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History : George Allen and Unwin : London, England : 1968 : Ball-Shakespeare

Balshofer, Fred J. and Arthur C. Miller : One Reel a Week : The University of California : Berkeley and Los Angeles, California : 1967 : Balshofer-OneReel

Bardèche, Maurice and Brasillach, Robert; translation, Iris Barry : The History of Motion Pictures : W.W. Norton & Company / The Museum of Modern Art : New York, New York : 1938 : Bardèche-History

Barlow, John D. : German Expressionist Film : Twayne Publishers : Boston, Massachusetts : 1982 : Barlow-German

Barnard, Tim, editor : Argentine Cinema : Nightwood Editions : Toronto, Ontario, Canada : 1986 : Barnard-Argentine

Barnes, John : The Rise of the Cinema in Great Britain : Bishopsgate Press Limited : London, England : 1983 : Barnes-Cinema-2

Barry, Iris : D.W. Griffith: American Film Master : The Museum of Modern Art : New York, New York : 1965 : Barry-Griffith

Barsam, Richard Meran : Nonfiction Film: A Critical History : E.P. Dutton Company : New York, New York : 1973 : Barsam-Nonfiction

Bartok, Dennis and Jeff Joseph : A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies : University Press of Mississippi : Jackson, Mississippi : 2016 : Bartok-Thousand

Basten, Fred E. : Glorious Technicolor: The Movies’ Magic Rainbow : A.S. Barnes and Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1980 : Basten-Technicolor

Best, Marc : Those Endearing Young Charms: Child Performers of the Screen : A.S. Barnes & Company :Cranbury, New Jersey : 1971 : Best-Those

Birchard, Robert S. : Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood : The University Press of Kentucky : Lexington, Kentucky : 2004 : Birchard-DeMille

Blake, Michael F. : The Films of Lon Chaney : Madison Books : Lanham, Maryland : 2001 : Blake-Films

Blum, Daniel : A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen : G.P. Putnam’s Sons : New York, New York : 1953 : Blum-Silent

Blum, Daniel : A Pictorial History of the Talkies : Grosset & Dunlap : New York, New York : 1958 : Blum-Talkies

Bogdanovich, Peter : Allan Dwan: The Last Pioneer : Praeger Publishers : New York, New York : 1971 : Bogdanovich-Dwan

Bohn, Thomas W. and Richard L. Stromgren : Light and Shadows: A History of Motion Pictures, third edition : Mayfield Publishing Company : Mountain View, California : 1987 : Bohn-Light

Bondanella, Peter : Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos : The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. : New York, New York : 2004 : Bondanella-Hollywood

Bondanella, Peter : Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present : Frederick Ungar Publishing Company : New York, New York : 1983 : Bondanella-Italian

Bowers, Q. David : Muriel Ostriche: Princess of Silent Films : The Vestal Press, and Bowers and Merena Galleries :Vestal, New York, and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire : 1987 : Bowers-Ostriche

Bowers, Q. David : Nickelodeon Theatres and Their Music : The Vestal Press : Vestal, New York : 1986 : Bowers-Nickel

Bowser, Eileen : The Transformation of Cinema: 1907-1915 : Charles Scribner’s Sons : New York, New York : 1990 : Bowser-Transformation

Braff, Richard E. : The Braff Silent Short Film Working Papers : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers : Jefferson, New Carolina : 2002 : Braff-Short

Braff, Richard E. : The Universal Silents: A Filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912-1929 : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers : Jefferson, New Carolina : 1999 : Braff-Universal

Bren, Frank : Poland : Flicks Books : Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England : 1986 : Bren-Poland

Brown, Karl, edited by Kevin Brownlow : Adventures with D.W. Griffith : Farrar Straus Giroux : New York, New York : 1973 : Brown-Griffith

Brownlow, Kevin : Behind the Mask of Innocence : Alfred A. Knopf : New York, New York : 1990 : Brownlow-Behind

Brownlow, Kevin and John Kobal : Hollywood: The Pioneers : Alfred A. Knopf : New York, New York : 1979 : Brownlow-Hollywood

Brownlow, Kevin : The Parade’s Gone By, revised edition : University of California Press : Berkeley, California : 1975 : Brownlow-Parade

Bryant, Roger : William Powell: The Life and Times : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers : Jefferson, North Carolina : 2006 : Bryant-Powell

Butler, Ivan : Cinema in Britain: An Illustrated Survey : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1973 : Butler-Cinema

Card, James : Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film : Alfred A. Knopf : New York, New York : 1994 : Card-Seductive

Carey, Gary : Lost Films : The Museum of Modern Art : New York, New York : 1970 : Carey-Lost

Carr, Robert E. and R.M. Hayes : Wide Screen Movies: A History and Filmography of Wide Gauge Filmmaking : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1988 : Carr-Wide

Carroll, David : The Matinee Idols : Arbor House Publishing Company : New York, New York : 1972 : Carroll-Matinee

Cary, Diana Serra : Jackie Coogan, The World’s Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood’s Legendary Child Star : The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : Lanham, Maryland and Oxford, England : 2003 : Cary-Coogan

Cary, Diana Serra : The Hollywood Posse: The Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History : Houghton Mifflin : Boston, Massachusetts : 1975 : Cary-Hollywood

Cassara, Bill : Edgar Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn : BearManor Media : Boalsburg, Pennsylvania : 2005 : Cassara-Kennedy

Ceram, C.W. (Kurt W. Marek) : Archaeology of the Cinema : Harcourt, Brace & World : New York, New York : 1965 : Ceram-Arch

Coe, Brian : The History of Movie Photography : Eastview Editions : Westfield, New Jersey : 1981 : Coe-History

Coissac, G. Michel : Histoire du cinématographe: de ses origines jusqu’à nos jours : Cinéopse : Paris, France : 1925 : Coissac-Historie

Colella, Antonia K. and Luke P. Colella : Now We’re Talking: The Story of Theodore W. Case and Sound-on-Film : 1st Books Library : unknown publisher location : 2003 : Colella-Case

Cooper, Miriam and Bonnie Herndon : Dark Lady of the Silents: My Life in Early Hollywood : Bobbs-Merrill : Indianapolis, Indiana : 1973 : Cooper-Dark

Cowie, Peter : Finnish Cinema : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1976 : Cowie-Finnish

Cowie, Peter : Seventy Years of Cinema : The Tantivy Press with A.S. Barnes & Company : London, England and Cranbury, New Jersey : 1976 : Cowie-Seventy

Cowie, Peter : Swedish Cinema : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1966 : Cowie-Swedish-1

Cowie, Peter : Swedish Cinema, from Ingeborg Holm to Fanny and Alexander : Svenska Institutet : Stockholm, Sweden : 1985 : Cowie-Swedish-2

Dardis, Tom : Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn’t Lie Down : Charles Scribner’s Sons : New York, New York : 1979 : Dardis-Keaton

Davies, Marion; edited by Pamela Pfau and Kenneth S. Marx : The Times We Had : Ballantine Books : New York, New York : 1977 : Davies-Times

Davis, Lon : Silent Lives: 100 Biographies of the Silent Film Era : BearManor Media : Albany, Georgia : 2008 : Davis-Lives

Dowd, Nancy and David Shepard, interviewers : King Vidor : Directors Guild of America and The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1988 : Dowd-Vidor

Drew, William M. : Speaking of Silents: First Ladies of the Screen : The Vestal Press : Vestal, New York : 1989 : Drew-Speaking

Eames, John Douglas and Ronald Bergen : The MGM Story: The Complete History of Sixty-Five Roaring Years, revised edition : Portland House : New York, New York : 1990 : Eames-MGM

Edelman, Rob : Great Baseball Films: From Right Off the Bat to A League of Their Own : Citadel Press : New York, New York : 1994 : Edelman-Baseball

Edmonds, Andy : Frame-Up! : Avon Books : New York, New York : 1992 : Edmonds-Arbuckle

Edmonds, Andy : Hot Toddy : Avon Books : New York, New York : 1990 : Edmonds-Todd

Edmonds, I.G. : Big U: Universal in the Silent Days : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1977 : Edmonds-BigU

Everson, William K. : American Silent Film : Oxford University Press : New York, New York : 1978 : Everson-American

Everson, William K. : The Art of W.C. Fields : The Bobbs-Merrill Company : New York, New York : 1967 : Everson-Fields

Everson, William K. : The Detective in Film : The Citadel Press : Secaucus, New Jersey : 1972 : Everson-Detective

Everson, William K. : A Pictorial History of the Western Film : The Citadel Press : New York, New York : 1969 : Everson-Western

Exhibitors Herald-World, editors : The Motion Picture Almanac: Pictures and Personalities : The Quigley Publishing Company : Chicago, Illinois : 1929 : MoPicAlmanac-1929

Eyles, Allen and David Meeker : Missing Believed Lost: The Great British Film Search : British Film Institute Publishing : London, England : 1992 : Eyles-Missing

Eyman, Scott : John Wayne: The Life and Legend : Simon & Schuster : New York, New York : 2014 : Eyman-Wayne

Eyman, Scott : Mary Pickford: From Here to Hollywood : Donald I. Fine : New York, New York : 1990 : Eyman-Pickford

Eyman, Scott : The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930 : The Johns Hopkins University Press : Baltimore, Maryland : 1999 : Eyman-Speed

Farmer, James H. : Broken Wings: Hollywood’s Air Crashes : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company : Missoula, Montana : 1984 : Farmer-Broken

Fell, John L. : A History of Films : Holt, Rinehart & Winston : New York, New York : 1979 : Fell-History

Fielding, Raymond : The American Newsreel: 1911-1967 : University of Oklahoma Press : Norman, Oklahoma : 1972 : Fielding-Newsreel

Fields, W.C.; commentary by Ronald J. Fields : W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography : Prentice-Hall : Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : 1973 : Fields-Fields

Film Daily, editors : Film Year Book 1922-1923 : Film Daily : New York, New York : 1923 : FilmYearBook-1923

Film Daily, editors : Film Year Book 1925 : Film Daily : New York, New York : 1924 : FilmYearBook-1925

Film Daily, editors : Film Year Book 1926 : Film Daily : New York, New York : 1925 : FilmYearBook-1926

Film Daily, editors : Film Year Book 1927 : Film Daily : New York, New York : 1926 : FilmYearBook-1927

Film Daily, editors : Film Year Book 1928 : Film Daily : New York, New York : 1927 : FilmYearBook-1928

Finch, Christopher : The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms : Harry N. Abrams : New York, New York : 1973 : Finch-Disney

Forslund, Bengt; translation, Peter Cowie with Anna-Maija Marttinen and Christer Frunck : Victor Sjöström: His Life and Work : New York Zoetrope : New York, New York : 1988 : Forslund-Sjöström

Frazer, John : Artifically Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Méliès : G.K. Hall & Company : Boston, Massachusetts : 1979 : Frazer-Méliès

Fussell, Betty Harper : Mabel: Hollywood’s First I-Don’t-Care Girl: The Life of Mabel Normand, revised edition : Limelight Editions : New York, New York : 1992 : Fussell-Normand

Gallagher, Tag : John Ford: The Man and His Films : The University of California Press : Berkeley and Los Angeles, California : 1986 : Gallagher-Ford

Geduld, Harry M. : The Birth of the Talkies: From Edison to Jolson : Indiana University Press : Bloomington, Indiana : 1975 : Geduld-Birth

Gifford, Denis : The British Film Catalogue 1895-1985: A Reference Guide : Facts on File Publications : New York, New York : 1986 : Gifford-British

Gish, Lillian with Anne Pinchot : The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me : Columbus Books : London, England : 1988 : Gish-Movies

Goddard, Charles and Eustace Hale Ball : The Mysteries of Myra : The Serial Squadron : Newtown, Pennsylvania : 2010 : Goddard-Myra

Gulick, Rebecca : Those Little Rascals: The Pictorial History of Our Gang : Crescent Books : Avenel, New Jersey : 1993 : Gulick-Rascals

Hake, Sabine : Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch : Princeton University Press : Princeton, New Jersey : 1992 : Hake-Lubitsch

Hanson, Patricia King and Alan Gevinson, editors : The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1911-1920 : University of California Press : Berkeley, California : 1988 : AFI-F1

Hayes, R.M. : 3-D Movies: A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1989 : Hayes-3D

Hayes, R.M. : Trick Photography: The Oscar Special-Effects Movies : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1986 : Hayes-Trick

Herzog, Peter and Romano Tozzi : Lya de Putti: Loving Life and Not Fearing Death : Corvin, Publisher : New York, New York : 1993 : Herzog-dePutti

Higashi, Sumiko : Virgins, Vamps, and Flappers: The American Silent Movie Heroine : Eden Press Women's Publications : St. Albans, Vermont : 1978 : Higashi-Virgins

Hirschhorn, Clive : The Universal Story : Crown Publishers : New York, New York : 1983 : Hirschhorn-Universal

Hirschhorn, Clive : The Warner Bros. Story : Crown Publishers : New York, New York : 1979 : Hirschhorn-Warner

Hudson, Richard M., and Raymond Lee : Gloria Swanson : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1970 : Hudson-Swanson

Hutchinson, David, editor : Fantastic 3-D : Starlog Press : New York, New York : 1982 : Hutchinson-3D

Jacobs, David : Chaplin, The Movies, & Charlie : Harper & Row : New York, New York : 1975 : Jacobs-Chaplin

Jensen, Paul M. : The Cinema of Fritz Lang : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1969 : Jensen-Lang

Jewell, Richard B. and Vernon Harbin : The RKO Story : Arlington House : New York, New York : 1982 : Jewell-RKO

Kael, Pauline : Kiss Kiss Bang Bang : Atlantic Monthly Press-Little, Brown and Company : Boston, Massachusetts : 1968 : Kael-Kiss

Katchmer, George A. : Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1991 : Katchmer-Eighty

Kerr, Walter : The Silent Clowns : Alfred A. Knopf : New York, New York : 1975 : Kerr-Silent

Keylin, Arleen and Christine Bent : The New York Times at the Movies : Arno Press : New York, New York : 1979 : Keylin-NYTimes

Kobal, John : 50 Years of Movie Posters : Bounty Books : New York, New York : 1973 : Kobal-Fifty

Koszarski, Diana Kaiser : The Complete Films of William S. Hart: A Pictorial Record : Dover Publications : New York, New York : 1980 : Koszarski-Hart

Koszarski, Richard : An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 : Charles Scribner’s Sons : New York, New York : 1990 : Koszarski-Evening

Kuhn, Annette with Susannah Radstone : Women in Film: An International Guide : Fawcett Columbine : New York, New York : 1991 : Kuhn-Women

Lahue, Kalton C. : Bound and Gagged : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1968 : Lahue-Bound

Lahue, Kalton C. : Collecting Classic Films : Hastings House Publishers and American Photographic Book Publishing Company : New York, New York : 1970 : Lahue-Collecting

Lahue, Kalton C. : Continued Next Week: A History of the Motion Picture Serial : University of Oklahoma Press : Norman, Oklahoma : 1964 : Lahue-Continued

Lahue, Kalton C. : Dreams for Sale: The Rise and Fall of the Triangle Film Corporation : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1971 : Lahue-Triangle

Lahue, Kalton C. : Gentlemen to the Rescue: The Heroes of the Silent Screen : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1972 : Lahue-Gentlemen

Lahue, Kalton C. and Terry Brewer : Kops and Custards: The Legend of Keystone Films : Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press : 1968 : Lahue-Kops

Lahue, Kalton C. : Mack Sennett's Keystone: the Man, the Myth and the Comedies : Cranbury, New Jersey : A.S. Barnes & Company : 1971 : Lahue-Mack

Lahue, Kalton C. : Motion Picture Pioneer: The Selig Polyscope Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : A.S. Barnes & Company : 1973 : Lahue-Selig

Lahue, Kalton C. : World of Laughter: The Motion Picture Comedy Short, 1910-1930, second printing : University of Oklahoma Press : Norman, Oklahoma : 1972 : Lahue-World

Lee, Raymond : The Films of Mary Pickford : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1970 : Lee-Pickford

Lee, Raymond : Not So Dumb: The Life and Times of the Animal Actors : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1970 : Lee-Not

Leish, Kenneth W. : Cinema : Newsweek Books : New York, New York : 1974 : Leish-Cinema

Leyda, Jay and Charles Musser, editors : Before Hollywood: Turn-of-the-Century American Film : Hudson Hills Press : New York, New York : 1987 : Leyda-Before

Library of Congress Copyright Office : Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Part 1: Books, Group 2: New Series, Volume 19: For the Year 1922: Nos. 1-12 : The Library of Congress Copyright Office : Washington, D.C. : 1923 : LoC-Copy-1922

Library of Congress Copyright Office (Howard Lamarr Walls, author) : Motion Pictures: 1894-1912 Identified from the Records of the United States Copyright Office : The Library of Congress Copyright Office : Washington, D.C. : 1953 : LoC-MoPic-1

Library of Congress Copyright Office : Motion Pictures: 1912-1939 (Catalog of Copyright Entries, Cumulative Series) : The Library of Congress Copyright Office : Washington, D.C. : 1951 : LoC-MoPic-2

Limbacher, James L. : Feature Films on 8mm and 16mm : R.R. Bowker Company : New York, New York : 1974 : Limbacher-Feature

Lloyd, Ann, editor; consultant editor David Robinson : 70 Years at the Movies: From Silent Films to Today’s Screen Hits : Crescent Books : New York, New York : 1988 : Lloyd-Seventy

Louvish, Simon : Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett : Faber and Faber : New York, New York : 2004 : Louvish-Keystone

Low, Rachael : The History of the British Film, 1918-1929 : George Allen and Unwin : London, England : 1971 : Low-History-4

Lynn, Kenneth S. : Charlie Chaplin and His Times : Cooper Square Press : New York, New York : 2003 : Lynn-Chaplin

Lyons, Timothy James : The Silent Partner: The History of the American Film Manufacturing Company 1910-1921 : Arno Press : New York, New York : 1974 : Lyons-American

Maas, Frederica Sagor : The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood : The University Press of Kentucky : Lexington, Kentucky : 1999 : Maas-Shocking

Maeder, Edward, organizer : Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film : Thames and Hudson and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art : New York, New York : 1987 : Maeder-Hollywood

Magliozzi, Ronald S. : Treasures from the Film Archives: A Catalog of Short Silent Fiction Films Held by FIAF Archives : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1988 : Magliozzi-Treasures

Maltin, Leonard : Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, Third Edition : Plume Books : New York, New York : 2015 : Maltin-Classic

Maltin, Leonard : The Disney Films : Crown Publishers : New York, New York : 1973 : Maltin-Disney

Maltin, Leonard, and Richard W. Bann : The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang, revised edition : Three Rivers Press : New York, New York : 1992 : Maltin-Little

Maltin, Leonard : Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, revised edition : Plume Books : New York, New York : 1989 : Maltin-Mice

Maltin, Leonard : Selected Short Subjects: From Spanky to the Three Stooges, revised edition : Bonanza Books : New York, New York : 1972 : Maltin-Selected

Manchel, Frank : Terrors of the Screen : Prentice-Hall : Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : 1970 : Manchel-Terrors

Mandelbaum, Howard and Eric Myers : Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood : St. Martin's Press : New York, New York : 1985 : Mandelbaum-Screen

Marrero, Robert : Vintage Monster Movies : Fantasma Books : Key West, Florida : 1993 : Marrero-Vintage

Massa, Steve : Lame Brains & Lunatics: The Good, the Bad, and the Forgotten of Silent Comedy : BearManor Media : Albany, Georgia : 2013 : Massa-LameBrains

Maturi, Richard J. and Mary Buckingham Maturi : Francis X. Bushman: A Biography and Filmography : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1998 : Maturi-Bushman

Maturi, Richard J. and Mary Buckingham Maturi : Will Rogers, Performer [revised and expanded edition] : 21st Century Publishers : Cheyenne, Wyoming : 2008 : Maturi-Rogers

McBride, Joseph : Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success : Simon & Schuster : New York, New York : 1992 : McBride-Capra

McBride, Joseph : Searching for John Ford : University Press of Mississippi : Jackson, Mississippi : 2011 : McBride-Searching

McCabe, John : Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy : Grosset & Dunlap : New York, New York : 1966 : McCabe-LaurelHardy

McCaffrey, Donald W. and Christopher P. Jacobs : Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema : Greenwood Press : Westport, Connecticut : 1999 : McCaffrey-Guide

McGhee, Richard D. : John Wayne: Actor, Artist, Hero : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1990 : McGhee-Wayne

McIlroy, Brian : Ireland : Flicks Books : Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England : 1989 : McIlroy-Ireland

McIlroy, Brian : Sweden : Flicks Books : Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England : 1986 : McIlroy-Sweden

Menefee, David W. : Sarah Bernhardt in the Theatre of Films and Sound Recordings : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers : Jefferson, North Carolina : 2003 : Menefee-Bernhardt

Miller, Blair : American Silent Film Comedies: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Persons, Studios and Terminology : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1995 : Miller-Comedies

Milne, Tom : The Cinema of Carl Dreyer : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1971 : Milne-Dreyer

Montgomery, John : Comedy Films 1894-1954, revised edition : George Allen and Unwin : London, England : 1968 : Montgomery-Comedy

Morgan, Hal and Dan Symmes : Amazing 3-D : Little, Brown : Boston, Massachusetts : 1982 : Morgan-3D

Motion Picture News, Inc. : Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual 1921 : Motion Picture News, Inc. : New York, New York : 1921 : MoPicStudioDir-1921

Mottram, Ron : The Danish Cinema Before Dreyer : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1988 : Mottram-Danish

Munden, Kenneth W., executive editor : The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930 : R.R. Bowker Company : New York, New York : 1971 : AFI-F2

Musser, Charles : Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company : The University of California Press : Berkeley and Los Angeles, California : 1991 : Musser-Before

Musser, Charles : Edison Motion Pictures, 1890-1900: An Annotated Filmography : Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and Smithsonian Institution Press : Pordenone, Italy and Washington, DC : 1997 : Musser-Edison

Musser, Charles : The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 : Charles Scribner's Sons : New York, New York : 1990 : Musser-Emerge

Nemeskürty, István; translation, Zsuzsanna Horn and Fred Macnicol : Word and Image: History of the Hungarian Cinema (A Magyar Film Története) : Corvina Press : Budapest, Hungary : 1974 : Nemeskürty-Word

Niver, Kemp R. and Bebe Bergsten : Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress : The Library of Congress : Washington, D.C. : 1985 : Niver-Early

Niver, Kemp R.; edited by Bebe Bergsten : The First Twenty Years: A Segment of Film History, second edition : Locare Research Group : Los Angeles, California : 1968 : Niver-First

Nollen, Scott Allen : Boris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, Television, and Recording Work : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1991 : Nollen-Karloff

Norris, M.G. : The Tom Mix Book : The World of Yesterday Publications : Waynesville, North Carolina : 1989 : Norris-Mix

Null, Gary : Black Hollywood: The Black Performer in Motion Pictures : Citadel Press : New York, New York : 1990 : Null-Black

O’Dell, Paul : Griffith and the Rise of Hollywood : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1970 : O’Dell-Griffith

O’Leary, Liam : The Silent Cinema : E.P. Dutton Company : New York, New York : 1965 : O’Leary-Silent

Paris, Barry : Louise Brooks : Anchor Books : New York, New York : 1990 : Paris-Brooks

Parish, James Robert : The Great Combat Pictures: Twentieth-Century Warfare on the Screen : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1990 : Parish-Combat

Parish, James Robert and Michael R. Pitts : The Great Gangster Pictures : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1976 : Parish-Gangster

Parish, James Robert and Don E. Stanke : The Glamour Girls : Arlington House : New Rochelle, New York : 1975 : Parish-Glamour

Parish, James Robert : The Hollywood Celebrity Death Book, revised edition : Pioneer Books : Las Vegas, Nevada : 1993 : Parish-Hollywood

Perry, George : The Great British Picture Show, revised edition : Little, Brown and Company : Boston, Massachusetts : 1985 : Perry-British

Pitts, Michael R. : Hollywood and American History: A Filmography of Over 250 Motion Pictures Depicting U.S. History : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1984 : Pitts-Hollywood

Poague, Leland A. : The Cinema of Frank Capra: An Approach to Film Comedy : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1975 : Poague-Capra

Pohle Jr., Robert W. and Douglas C. Hart : Sherlock Holmes on the Screen : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1977 : Pohle-Holmes

Poole, Ed and Susan Poole : Silent Studio Directory : LearnAboutMoviePosters.com : Harvey, Louisiana : 2015 : Poole-Studio

Pratt, George C. : Spellbound in Darkness, revised edition : New York Graphic Society : Greenwich, Connecticut : 1973 : Pratt-Spellbound

Prelinger, Rick : The Field Guide to Sponsored Films : National Film Preservation Foundation : San Francisco, California : 2006 : Prelinger-Guide

Quirk, Lawrence J. : The Complete Films of Joan Crawford, revised edition : The Citadel Press : Secaucus, New Jersey : 1988 : Quirk-Crawford

Quirk, Lawrence J. : The Complete Films of William Powell : The Citadel Press : Secaucus, New Jersey : 1986 : Quirk-Powell

Quirk, Lawrence J. : The Films of Gloria Swanson : The Citadel Press : Secaucus, New Jersey : 1984 : Quirk-Swanson

Quirk, Lawrence J. : The Films of Ronald Colman : The Citadel Press : Secaucus, New Jersey : 1977 : Quirk-Colman

Rainey, Buck : The Life and Films of Buck Jones: The Silent Era : The World of Yesterday : Waynesville, North Carolina : 1988 : Rainey-Jones

Ramsaye, Terry : A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture Through 1925 : Simon and Schuster : New York, New York : 1926 : Ramsaye-Million

Rawlence, Christopher : The Missing Reel : Fontana / HarperCollins Publishers : London, England : 1991 : Rawlence-Missing

Reade, Eric : Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History 1896-1929 : Lansdowne Press : Melbourne, Australia : 1970 : Reade-Australian

Reilly, Adam : Harold Lloyd: The King of Daredevil Comedy : Macmillan Publishing Company : New York, New York : 1977 : Reilly-Lloyd

Ringgold, Gene and DeWitt Bodeen : The Films of Cecil B. DeMille : The Citadel Press : New York, New York : 1969 : Ringgold-DeMille

Robertson, James C. : The British Board of Film Censors: Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950 : Croom Helm : London, England : 1985 : Robertson-British

Robertson, Patrick : The Guinness Book of Movie Facts & Feats, fourth edition : Guinness Publishing : Middlesex, England : 1991 : Robertson-Guinness

Robinson, David : Chaplin: His Life and Art : McGraw-Hill Publishing Company : New York, New York : 1989 : Robinson-Chaplin

Robinson, David : From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film : Columbia University Press : New York, New York : 1996 : Robinson-Palace

Ryall, Tom : Blackmail : British Film Institute Publishing : London, England : 1993 : Ryall-Blackmail

Sarris, Andrew : The Films of Josef von Sternberg : The Museum of Modern Art : New York, New York : 1966 : Sarris-Sternberg

Sato, Tadao; translation, Gregory Barrett : Currents in Japanese Cinema : Kodansha International : New York, New York : 1982 : Sato-Currents

Savada, Elias, compiler : The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Film Beginnings, 1893-1910, A Work in Progress : Two volumes : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1995 : AFI-A

Schelly, William : Harry Langdon : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1982 : Schelly-Langdon

Schuchman, John S. : Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry : University of Illinois Press : Urbana and Chicago, Illinois : 1988 : Schuchman-Hollywood

Sherk, Warren M., compiler and editor : The Films of Mack Sennett: Credit Documentation from the Mack Sennett Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library : Scarecrow Press, Incorporated : Lanham, Maryland : 1998 : Sherk-Sennett

Sherwood, Robert E., editor : The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-1923, also Who’s Who in the Movies and the Yearbook of the American Screen : Small, Maynard & Company : Boston, Massachusetts : 1923 : Sherwood-Best

Shipman, David : Cinema: The First Hundred Years : St. Martin's Press : New York, New York : 1993 : Shipman-Cinema

Shipman, Nell : The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart, revised edition : Boise State University : Boise, Idaho : 1988 : Shipman-Silent

Shirley, Graham and Brian Adams : Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years : Angus & Robertson Publishers and Currency Press : Australia : 1983 : Shirley-Australian

Simmon, Scott : The Films of D.W. Griffith : Cambridge University Press : New York, New York : 1993 : Simmon-Griffith

Sinclair, Andrew : John Ford : NewThe Dial Press / James Wade : York, New York : 1979 : Sinclair-Ford

Sinyard, Neil : Silent Movies : Gallery Books : New York, New York : 1990 : Sinyard-Silent

Skal, David J. and Elias Savada : Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning Hollywood's Master of the Macabre : Anchor Books : New York, New York : 1995 : Skal-Browning

Sklar, Robert : Movie-Made America, revised edition : Vintage Books : New York, New York : 1994 : Sklar-Movie

Skretvedt, Randy : Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies : Moonstone Press : Beverly Hills, California : 1987 : Skretvedt-Magic

Slide, Anthony : Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920 : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1978 : Slide-Aspects

Slide, Anthony with Alan Gevinson : The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company, revised edition : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1987 : Slide-BigV

Slide, Anthony : Early American Cinema, revised edition : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1994 : Slide-Early

Slide, Anthony : The Kindergarten of the Movies: A History of the Fine Arts Company : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1980 : Slide-FineArts

Slide, Anthony : The Cinema and Ireland : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1988 : Slide-Ireland

Slide, Anthony : Nitrate Won’t Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1992 : Slide-Nitrate

Sloan, Kay : The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film : University of Illinois Press : Urbana, Illinois : 1988 : Sloan-Loud

Smith, Gary A. : Epic Films: Casts, Credits and Commentary on Over 250 Historical Spectacle Movies : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1991 : Smith-Epic

Smith, R. Dixon : Ronald Colman, Gentleman of the Cinema : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1991 : Smith-Colman

Sopocy, Martin : James Williamson: Studies and Documents of a Pioneer of the Film Narrative : Associated University Presses : Cranbury, New Jersey, London, England, and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada : 1998 : Sopocy-Williamson

Spehr, Paul C. with Gunnar Lundquist : American Film Personnel and Company Credits, 1908-1920: Filmographies Reordered by Authoritative Organizational and Personal Names from Lauritzen and Lundquist’s American Film-Index : McFarland & Company : Jefferson, North Carolina : 1996 : Spehr-American

Stedman, Raymond William : The Serials: Suspense and Drama by Installment : University of Oklahoma Press : Norman, Oklahoma : 1971 : Stedman-Serials

Steinbrunner, Chris and Otto Penzler, editors, with Marvin Lachman and Charles Shibuk : Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection : McGraw-Hill : New York, New York : 1976 : Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia

Steinbrunner, Chris and Norman Michaels : The Films of Sherlock Holmes : The Citadel Press : Secaucus, New Jersey : 1978 : Steinbrunner-Holmes

Sweeney, Russell C. : Coming Next Week: A Pictorial History of Film Advertising : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1973 : Sweeney-Coming

Tarbox, Charles H. : Lost Films (1895-1917) : Film Classic Exchange : Los Angeles, California : 1983 : Tarbox-Lost

Taylor, John Russell : Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock : Pantheon Books : New York, New York : 1978 : Taylor-Hitchcock

Thompson, Frank : Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared : Citadel Press : New York, New York : 1996 : Thompson-Lost

Thompson, Frank : The Star Film Ranch: Texas’ First Picture Show : Republic of Texas Press : Plano, Texas : 1996 : Thompson-Star

Tillmany, Jack : Theatres of San Francisco : Arcadia Publishing : Charleston, South Carolina : 2005 : Tillmany-TheatresSF

Usai, Paolo Cherchi and Lorenzo Codelli, editors : Before Caligari: German Cinema, 1895-1920 : Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and Edizioni Biblioteca dell’Immagine : Pordenone, Italy : 1990 : Usai-Before

Usai, Paolo Cherchi and Lorenzo Codelli, editors : L’Eredità DeMille (The DeMille Legacy) : Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and Edizioni Biblioteca dell’Immagine : Pordenone, Italy : 1991 : Usai-DeMille

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 1: Films Produced in 1907-1908 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 1999 : Usai-Griffith-1

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 2: Films Produced in January-June 1909 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 1999 : Usai-Griffith-2

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 3: Films Produced in July-December 1909 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 1999 : Usai-Griffith-3

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 4: Films Produced in 1910 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2000 : Usai-Griffith-4

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 5: Films Produced in 1911 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2001 : Usai-Griffith-5

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 6: Films Produced in 1912 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2002 : Usai-Griffith-6

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 7: Films Produced in 1913 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2003 : Usai-Griffith-7

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 8: Films Produced in 1914-1915 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2004 : Usai-Griffith-8

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 9: Films Produced in 1916-1918 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2005 : Usai-Griffith-9

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 10: Films Produced in 1919-1946 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2006 : Usai-Griffith-10

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 11: Selected Writings by D.W. Griffith; Indexes and Corrections to Volumes 1-10 : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2007 : Usai-Griffith-11

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, general editor : The Griffith Project, Volume 12: Essays on D.W. Griffith : British Film Institute Publishing and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto : London, England, and Pordenone, Italy : 2008 : Usai-Griffith-12

Usai, Paolo Cherchi, Lorenzo Codelli, Carlo Montanaro and David Robinson, editors, with research and coordination by Yuri Tsivian : Silent Witnesses: Russian Films 1908-1919 : Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Edizioni Biblioteca dell’Immagine and British Film Institute Publishing : Pordenone, Italy and London, England : 1989 : Usai-Witnesses

Vance, Jeffrey : Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema : Harry N. Abrams : New York, New York : 2003 : Vance-Chaplin

Vermilye, Jerry : The Films of the Twenties : The Citadel Press : Secaucus, New Jersey : 1985 : Vermilye-Twenties

Wakeman, John, editor : World Film Directors, Volume One: 1890-1945 : The H.W. Wilson Company : New York, New York : 1987 : Wakeman-World

Walker, Alexander : Garbo : Macmillan Publishing Company : New York, New York : 1980 : Walker-Garbo

Warren, Patricia : The British Film Collection 1896-1984: A History of the British Cinema in Pictures : Salem House : Salem, New Hampshire : 1984 : Warren-British

Watson, Coy Jr. : The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood : Santa Monica Press : Santa Monica, California : 2001 : Watson-Keystone

Watters, James and Horst P. Horst : Return Engagement: Faces to Remember — Then & Now : Clarkson N. Potter Publishers : New York, New York : 1984 : Watters-Return

Weaver, John T. : Twenty Years of Silents 1908-1928 : The Scarecrow Press : Metuchen, New Jersey : 1971 : Weaver-Twenty

Webb, Michael, editor : Hollywood: Legend and Reality : Little, Brown and Company : Boston, Massachusetts : 1986 : Webb-Hollywood

Weinberg, Herman G. : The Complete Wedding March of Erich von Stroheim : Little, Brown and Company : Boston, Massachusetts : 1974 : Weinberg-Wedding

Weinberg, Herman G. : The Lubitsch Touch: A Critical Study, third edition : Dover Publications : New York, New York : 1977 : Weinberg-Lubitsch

Weinberg, Herman G. : Stroheim: A Pictorial Record of His Nine Films : Dover Publications : New York, New York : 1975 : Weinberg-Stroheim

Whitfield, Eileen : Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood : The University Press of Kentucky : Lexington, Kentucky : 2007 : Whitfield-Pickford

Wood, Robin : Hitchcock’s Films, second edition : A.S. Barnes & Company : Cranbury, New Jersey : 1969 : Wood-Hitchcock

Wyver, John. : The Moving Image: An International History of Film, Television & Video : Basil Blackwell, Limited/British Film Institute Publishing : Oxford, England : 1989 : Wyver-Moving

Youngblood, Denise J. : Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918-1935 : University of Texas Press : Austin, Texas : 1991 : Youngblood-Soviet

Zone, Ray : Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 : The University Press of Kentucky : Lexington, Kentucky : 2007 : Zone-Stereoscopic

Zouary, Maurice H. : DeForest: Father of the Electronic Revolution, revised edition : 1st Books Library : unknown publisher location : 2000 : Zouary-DeForest

[no editor listed] : Variety Film Reviews 1907-1920 : Garland Publishing Inc. : New York, New York : 1983 : Garland-Variety-1
 
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